Graham Hancock
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And there it is, First Dynasty. And of course, you can't actually date the object itself. So they're dating it from context. What they're saying is that it was found in a First Dynasty context, but it may have been a legacy even then. It may have been an old object even then. We just don't know that. Because you can't carbon date it. Exactly. But it's at least that old from the context.
Oh, excuse me, 3,000 BCE.
Oh, excuse me, 3,000 BCE.
Oh, excuse me, 3,000 BCE.
I don't know either, but I would have thought that if that was your project, you could do it without carving schist into that. Click on that thing.
I don't know either, but I would have thought that if that was your project, you could do it without carving schist into that. Click on that thing.
I don't know either, but I would have thought that if that was your project, you could do it without carving schist into that. Click on that thing.
It clearly had a function. Nobody would go to the trouble of creating something as complex and difficult to make as this unless there was a useful function. What is it made out of? Schist, which is a hard stone. That's crazy that that's made out of stone.
It clearly had a function. Nobody would go to the trouble of creating something as complex and difficult to make as this unless there was a useful function. What is it made out of? Schist, which is a hard stone. That's crazy that that's made out of stone.
It clearly had a function. Nobody would go to the trouble of creating something as complex and difficult to make as this unless there was a useful function. What is it made out of? Schist, which is a hard stone. That's crazy that that's made out of stone.
I've never seen a satisfactory guess. But those like Chris Dunn, who are studying the technology of ancient Egypt, are confident that we're looking at the traces of a lost technology. We don't know how this was done. Like so much else in ancient Egypt, we don't know how the 70-ton blocks were raised to become the roof of the king's chamber either.
I've never seen a satisfactory guess. But those like Chris Dunn, who are studying the technology of ancient Egypt, are confident that we're looking at the traces of a lost technology. We don't know how this was done. Like so much else in ancient Egypt, we don't know how the 70-ton blocks were raised to become the roof of the king's chamber either.
I've never seen a satisfactory guess. But those like Chris Dunn, who are studying the technology of ancient Egypt, are confident that we're looking at the traces of a lost technology. We don't know how this was done. Like so much else in ancient Egypt, we don't know how the 70-ton blocks were raised to become the roof of the king's chamber either.
There's so much that we don't know and that's not explained and that is easily written off by abusively arrogant experts who say there's no mystery here.
There's so much that we don't know and that's not explained and that is easily written off by abusively arrogant experts who say there's no mystery here.
There's so much that we don't know and that's not explained and that is easily written off by abusively arrogant experts who say there's no mystery here.